Living Costs Quotes

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

Most people need the money all the time.

I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.

I really resent how expensive everything is in London.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.

Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses

the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

Gas prices and train fares seem to be the two commodities for modern British life that base their prices on a whim, or numbers plucked out of thin air, without a thought to the real cost to those for whom those price hikes mean unimaginable sacrifices in their day to day lives.

No sane political figure is going to say a kind word for recession--but the universally avoided truth is that there is at present no better way to increase productivity in plants, to turn impulse buyers into careful shoppers at supermarkets, and to seriously cut into rising living costs.

I appeal to everyone who understands what it is to have kids in school, have a mortgage, to work for a living; to have someone in their family or in their life who is less-abled and who is going to need help from the government.

The impact of low interest rates is broad and deep. Many Americans rely on interest income from their savings to help cover their cost of living.

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.

What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families that shouldn't be there.

I love being a dad. I'd do it full-time if I didn't have to make a living.

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.